Google Android’s Next Move: Your Living Room

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Where is Google Android heading next? The answer likely involves the operating system leaping from tablets and smartphones onto a gaming system in your living room. That’s right: Android (riding a video game console called OUYA) could compete with Microsoft Xbox 360 and 720, PlayStation 3 and 4 and Nintendo Wii U. Here’s why you should actually care.
The OUYA, priced at $99, is accepting preorders now. You can find all the technical details here. But here’s the really important part: All games include free trials, and there will be an app store.
Yup: smartphone-type and table
(IT news)

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